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Richard Overy: Blood and Ruins [2021] hardback Condition:New and his musings on the'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous single volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent